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Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
Thursday, November 19
One of the titans of animation was Isadore Freleng, nicknamed Friz for his frizzie hair. He had been part of the Kansas City clique of animators working for Disney before moving to Warner Brothers, where he was a key person behind such characters as …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Wednesday, September 9Customizable Content: In 2006, the Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" could be customized with any of 500 different first names. You had to download it for double the usual price, but that came without digital rights management. The title track from her album of the same name, it included an interpolation Diana Ross's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and was shortlisted for a Grammy. I Judge It a Great Name: Some people have names that are ironic, like Cardinal Sin from the Philippines, who was in fact a cardinal. Then there is Judge Learned Hand, one of the most influential lower-court justices the United States ever had. A little bit, in pills, helps heart patients. A lot, in dynamite, blows stuff up. What? A) Ammonium nitrate B) Gunpowder C) Nitroglycerin D) Trinitrotoluene Previous answer: "Ulysses" by James Joyce was famous for a 4,000-word-plus sentence. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com.
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